Morning Lesson January 23, 2022, Transcription

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Part 2:

Baal HaSulam. The Wisdom of Kabbalah and Philosophy (The Origin of the Soul)

1. R. (02:07) We still do not really understand the question, but basically the question is what is the spiritual and corporeal, what is the connection between them and how do they influence one another, this is the general question. If we have two forms of reality, corporeal and spiritual as we will later come to, so we will see. Is there the corporeal world we imagine or is it as it is written the imaginary world and what only exists is spirituality? That we have the imagination, we are the dreamers and when we discover spirituality, we understand how much we were only, as the sources say, that we were looking inwards to see what is happening in the will to receive not outside of it.

Reader continues (03:12)

2. S. (07:50) When he says that he puts two atoms together they will become a liquid, so I am asking you we have a corporate world and the spiritual world, why was the corporeal world given to us, so we are turning to what?

R. The corporeal world was given to us so we will begin from some perception of reality, even though it is false, and completely unrelated to spirituality, but still in it we can exist. In our sense of will to receive and according to our will to receive we determine all those things good, bad and to what extent and in what way, what form, according to size, to scale up or down. In the will to receive, how satisfied we are and also in what way, in what form. There is also matter and there is form, so in what form. In sweet, sour, far, near, it does not matter, it will build in our will to receive two discernments. This is how we develop for now, if it is not spiritual development, it is corporeal development, but by developing in corporeal development, there comes a stage in our corporeal development where we can begin the spiritual development, which is a completely different reality, but it has to be built on something. This is why the first reality, it is built on our will to receive, that what we feel bad or good for us naturally, this is called an egoistic development, development in the simple will to receive as it is revealed. At the same time we have the other developments, the altruistic one in which we develop in our will to bestow as much as we can and absorb it, establish it, control with it, control the initial desire. In other words here we come from zero to the first desire which is the will to receive, we develop in the will to receive, build in the will to receive all kinds of discernments. Then out of this we come to a desire to bestow, and then we build in the relation between the will to receive and bestow and how we elevate ourselves from the will to receive which has already become our nature, to the desire to bestow which we want to be our nature instead of the will to receive. We cannot have one without the other, so the other, the will to bestow lives, exists and is accepted in us on top of our will to receive, our natural one.

S. Where is the conclusion that the spiritual world is the true world, the spiritual truth that we have to come to, and the corporeal world is an illusion?

R. Those who attain the spiritual world say about it that this is the world of truth. Truth means that the upper force is present in it and not the lower force; this is why it is called this way, the world of truth.

S. You are really living it, there is life in that corporeal world?

R. If you're in the control of the will to bestow and you're in the control of the will to bestow meaning you control, that your power of bestowal rides above your forces of reception, it is considered that you are in the upper world as a created being that is in the world at the level where there is power of the Creator and you are like a guest there.

S. So you do live there, there is a type of life outside of corporeal?

R. In the faith above reason you live in the spiritual force.

S. The spiritual world you cannot see it, you can feel it, the question is if you live there?

R. What you feel now you call it life, if you relate to life the way Marx and Engels talked about it, what did they write? They wrote that life is a form of existence, is a protein form of existence, which is what they said about it, the protein form of existence.

S. You are right.

R. So is this how you accept it, you take it?

S. I am just saying it is hard to understand, you can live in the spiritual world without your body.

R. Our body does not exist, it is just imagination, it is your perception of reality.

S. Right.

R. I think that is clear to us, it is not mandatory for our lives, especially now we are living in the world that is all waves, radio waves, phones, everything is waves. So can you say that we are alive? Our whole lives it is in waves, ether, not in substance.

S. Every time you remind us that actually in the upper world, they are waiting for us, that there is life behind this fake life.

R. I do not understand, are you trying to ask if someone is waiting for you there? They are waiting for you there but if you see how they are waiting for you there you would not hurry going there.

S. Let us hope we get there.

R. You just need to, I see that many friends are smiling now, so what am I trying to say we have to do everything that we can do, what we are supposed to do here and then you will see what happens, what will be is all one process of building of building of man. We have to participate in building the system of Adam HaRishon, man.

S. So this whole story you are telling me it is called the world of truth, why are we calling that?

R. Because this is the system that really exists in its correct real form, the force of bestowal and not force of reception. That is it.

3. S. (16:01) I do not understand Baal HaSulam’s explanation. What is he trying to say? What is the difference between the force that can cause matter, in physics we do not call it like that, because oxygen does take place?

R. Yes, I understand you, but he wants to describe things that are palpable or not, things that we can touch and things we cannot. If I put my hand in a bottle with gas, I do not feel the gas, I feel that it is empty, because it is beneath my senses. So that is why he writes it this way, he needs to give you some simple explanation.

S. But also spiritually, what does it mean that the force is also matter? We know that force is something that influences something that is why we can feel it but only the result. What does it mean that the force is matter?

R. There is no difference between power, force, and matter. It is only from the perspective of our senses but in reality, if you have the force, what is the difference between it and the matter? Only because of the respect of our senses because force can become matter and matter can become force, there is no difference.

4. S. (17:36) It seems that it is important to Baal HaSulam in this article, you also keep telling us how reality is only inside in our desire?

R. Of course, of course, on the perspective of our vessels of reception.

S. You also mentioned that our world today goes more to life through waves, communication waves, virtual and so on, is it a process that is towards recognition, general recognition that we are in some kind of virtual reality?

R. Yes, you could say that's all the development of this world is in order to bring people closer to easier perception of spirituality, to make them more, because if you showed something from today to person at thousand years ago, he would think you are an angel from above and he will go crazy from all the things that you would show him. Today even a little child knows how to use all kinds of buttons, phones, and computers, better than us. Certainly for me.

S. That idea of connecting hearts that are beyond the body, between people, is it something you see can be perceived in all of human awareness and all of humanity?

R. I do not really think about it, but it is certain that humanity is coming to a state where it will be easy to perceive what is spirituality. Look 55 years ago or so, maybe even 60 years ago when I went into the University, there was this machine there, it was like a stadium, the size of a stadium. Something huge with all kinds of cabinets, with tapes and those tapes were turning. There were tables with many, many buttons and people were running back and forth with all kinds of these cards, in those cards they would puncture holes, and that is how they operated this machine. This whole machine was planned to compute some orbit around Earth for this tiny satellite and many people worked on it, it was something huge. I was just a beginner at the University, it was in St Petersburg, so what can I tell you what they did then? Today you have many, many more times than that is in every cell phone. When my grandson sits at the computer at home, he does things many times more sophisticated than that machine which had maybe 300 or 400 square meters of cabinets with equipment. We are going into a new world; we have to get used to it. It is not a material but force that governs, we have to rise above matter to the world of forces, to the world of forces and the next stage will be how we will share our thoughts. Because the problem is in our thoughts, this realization, these bombs, and everything, that is not today's that is yesterday's. For tomorrow we will be in a different force, we will be in the force of thoughts, the power of thoughts. There we will meet for better or worse. So let us read and you will teach us.

Reader continues (23:13)

5. R. (25:04) Yes, because Kabbalah takes care of the spiritual world, the world of forces where there is a desire either pro or con, there is only the desire working and according to the size of the desires and pro or con towards the Creator, which is how the created being exists and in such a way he depicts the world for himself. That is it there is no more about it.

Reader continues (25:47)

6. S. (27:16) What changes when I discover spirituality? How do I relate to corporeality and how does it impact me? What impact does it have?

R. The difference between corporeal perception and spiritual perception is that in the spiritual perception you also discover the reason, first of all, and then you adhere to that reason, the cause and you do not want to separate from it. You only want to increase your perception, your hold to that cause, to that reason. That is first of all the difference between a corporeal and the spiritual perception then you constantly are only concerned about how to compare your form with the spiritual cause because you see that is what you depend on completely, completely depend on it.

7. S. (28:35) The primary part of the matter is the force within, is that an explanation for this force?

R. The force of bestowal. The force of bestowal. The matter is the desire, the form of the matter is bestowal.

8. S. (29:06) We cannot live without air, and we do not feel the Creator in there? How can we feel that without the ten we cannot live because the Creator is in it?

R. I do not understand these examples, I do not want to accept them. I say what the wisdom of Kabbalah says the way I understand it, we need to reach the ten, to ask that we have connection in the ten to such an extent that we start to feel the essence of the ten. The essence of the ten is the Creator. That is it. Meaning if we start feeling instead of the ten, we feel the connection that connects us from ten we become as one, then we will start feeling the reality of the Creator there.

9. S. (30:23) Are intentions to receive or to bestow, forces?

R. Yes.

10. S. (30:38) What is Baal HaSulam trying to explain in the article through the example that there are elements of nature that we do not perceive in our senses, what is he trying to convey to us?

R. He tries to convey to us that even though there are things that we do not sense in our senses, they still exist, and we have to come closer to them and take them into consideration.

11. S. (31:10) Scientists are relying on precise instruments to study material forces. If the instrument we need are the ten, what are the gauges we are to pay attention to in the ten?

R. In the ten we have to establish ourselves that we are all equal, first. In this equality we need to add here as much as we can to come close to one another, to stick ourselves together and reach the state of one man with one heart. That heart is made of all our hearts, that we can only be connected in our intentions to be connected, and not in the essence that each of us is a part, a separated part from Adam HaRishon, from a different part of Adam HaRishon. When we connect, we do not really connect like parts that we connect by soldering or we cannot do that, but our connection is connection above the forces of separation that remain, even get stronger and are revealed more and more. We above these forces of separation connect ourselves in forces of unity and connection that eventually what is revealed is all the bad desires between us, of all the parts of Adam HaRishon, first Adam, all of them and they are revealed in the horrible, wild way all the connections the negative connections. Above that we built in our forces, what we get from the Creator obviously, we get the positive connection, a real connection and the positive and negative remain. They bring that same Adam HaRishon just as it was before the shattering and gets an intensity 620 times more, that is called revealing the Creator in the vessel in a complete way.

12. S. (34:13) In this excerpt Baal HaSulam tells us about the limitations of perception of reality, so how can we expand these boundaries so there will be no difference between force and matter in our perception and does perception of the world change when the person begins to perceive the world as forces?

R. No, the corporeal world is the corporeal world, it does not change, there is nothing that will change. It is the will to receive in its earthly form, what does change is what man discovers, he discovers spirituality so the perception of reality changes in him. The perception is not a corporeal perception that he starts seeing the essence of the connection between the shattered parts of Adam HaRishon.

13. S. (35:24) If you could see what awaits you, you would not hurry there, what did you mean?

R. That they are waiting for him in the corrected form and not that he comes now as the worker of the union. Clear? Even though he is a beloved veteran friend and advancing but along with that let him complete his advancement with us. It is written that; you will see your world in your life. Meaning that the spiritual world needs to be obtained in this corporeal world, to connect the two that is what I wish for.

S. There are more general questions but not on the topic.

R. Okay and that is what I wish for everybody, in this world we have to do everything possible, there is nowhere to run, we need to do the work here and as much as possible. That is why you will not see a Kabbalist that really wants to die, that wants to leave this world that wants to leave the work in this world. Because instead of it we are not given more beneficial work for correcting our soul, there is none. That is why I let us use each and every moment that we are in this reality.

Reader Continues “Lights and Kelim…” (37:25) twice

14. S. (45:21) What does Baal HaSulam relate to when he says that naturally, he says naturally the first hanging down, cascading is more complete, and the rest is more restricted. I am not sure how he sees it?

R. I do not understand your question: what is written that you are asking about?

S. He says the first in emanation is the most complete and purer than everything that follows. What is he related to Adam HaRishon or who?

R. Adam HaRishon, that Adam HaRishon was born circumcised as we say, that he did not feel the will to receive in him. Afterwards, the light came and increased his will to receive that is called that Adam HaRishon ate from the Tree of Knowledge, and when his will to receive grew that wants also good things, also bad things so he received, he received, we learned that in the shattering. He thought he was going in order to bestow but did not feel, that in him, there is lack of forces to bestow for the fruit of the tree of knowledge on the final correction, of light of Ein Sof he could not receive in order to bestow. That is why it shattered; we are the results of that shattering. Okay?

Meaning there is Adam HaRishon before the shattering that is the will to receive that still was not used then there is the will to receive that thinks it can reach the degree of the Creator by receiving in order to bestow all the light that comes to him from the Creator. He goes for it, and he really has the right good, nice intentions but he just cannot perform it and then he was shattered. You can say that the whole shattering was pre-planned in advance and after the shattering there are already the parts of that system, the individual desires to receive. It is us, humans that keep distancing and shattering more and more. It is like a chain reaction, and we are already at a time where everything shattered and descended and now, we want to start gathering it and rise. When did it start? It started from Adam HaRishon that we are speaking about, that is called the first person that actually started correction. Until the final stage from Adam HaRishon to the first person to the final state, 6,000 years have to go by we are already in 5,783 so soon.

15. S. (50:15) First I want to say it is difficult to ask questions here because it is difficult to understand the language. What does he mean that philosophy which is opposite the view of philosophy which fabricated the people, many concepts are not complex materials, what does he mean?

R. What he means, I do not know, each one understands that according to his own brain. It is written in a way that. Look, you can write many pages on each such thing and maybe one will understand it. I do not think we can understand all of this in the true way until we do not reach the spiritual degree which suits this. Otherwise it is just philosophizing and to begin with I do not like that.

S. How can we not fall into philosophy here?

R. So do not get in there.

S. So what should I take from the article?

R. Philosophy is the fruit of the brain of a corporeal person, that more than his stomach he does not know how to feel or understand. Clear?

16. S. (51:51) A person during his life if he does not approach his correction, does he continue the breaking with us, meaning the process of shattering, is it continued until today? Another question: if the shattering continues is it as if somehow assisting our correction?

R. The fact that you are asking it is a very complex question and it has a place, meaning as much as the wicked shatter more and cause more shattering are they helping the corrections? It is written, it is not them and not their reward. Meaning we do not need to be concerned about the corruptions, but we already revealed before us for correcting and we only need to be concerned about those corrections. Obviously, you can corrupt more and more and eventually, as Baal HaSulam writes by the way, that all of the corrupted forms themselves will later on bring corrections but it is not worth it for us to take that path because that is called the long path. It is not good for us, and it is not good in the eyes of the Creator that is why the quicker we can reach corrections the better.

S. I wanted to ask people who do not enter corrections, those generation after generation people are going into pleasures, they desire breaks, they fall into pleasures, their desire breaks again, do they make our work easier?

R. They bring themselves to the correction and we prepare ourselves for the correction and there will be time when we will be able to connect to them and they will receive the method of correction through us and this way we all can uplift to the degree of Bina. Quickly in our days.

17. S. (54:19) You told us now about the theory of the breaking of man, how will the correction take place? Do we re-collect those pieces that broke through six thousand years and raise everything to the degree of man and how do Kabbalists look at it, the breaking and the disintegration of man and the recollecting of man into one soul?

R. We are already in the process of correction. We have until the end of correction a bit more than one hundred years. So 6000 years minus 5783, we have about 220 years until Gmar Tikkun if you want to count that in years, but we can get there even earlier, let us say if all of Georgia joins us so we will reach very quickly!

18. S. (55:59) Why is there a difference in spiritual degrees if the light is the same light?

R. There is no difference in the light but there is a difference in the vessels, the coarseness of root one, two, three and four, each one went through shattering and exists in different forms after the shattering. According to the different forms between the connections of everyone, that connections have to be integral this and that, that in this, each and every one, we have to turn the digital form into an analog form. It is something that we do not know how to do, it is by the upper light but that is how that is how it is done that is why it is not according to, it is not linear as you are saying, it is much more complex. Except for that the vessels are corrected not in a direct way but as starts from the easier ones and the heavier ones are at the end. They mutually affect each other, that you cannot suddenly do something in the middle if you do not add the end and the beginning. So it is all complex, we in every state you build you have to build all the stages in it, that is why there is incorporation of everyone and all and it is very, very, it makes understanding this more difficult. We can understand and see it especially if you look at them from the integral general perspective when you look from the end towards the beginning but from the beginning to see the end where we are now, it is very difficult to understand.

S. From the end meaning from the final correction?

R. Yes, that it is all a sphere, you see it in a whole manner in each and every stage you have to reach and in the next stage you have supposedly the first Adam has to assemble like a mini system in every stage he goes through like a sphere and all those spheres later on help each other until they all connect into one sphere. These are things that are above our minds, it is in spirituality and faith above reason, it all connects, that it all works out, but in our world no. Our world still whichever way you try to see it in everything it becomes, it happens through differential forms, that you have to slice and slice and slice and do and do and do, connect, and connect and in the end, you do not do it from the whole form that is before you. That is why first we have to acquire the degrees of faith above reason and then through that approach, through that observation we will be able to assemble the shattering, the reality through the shattering. I see how already our manager is giving me faces that I have to finish the lesson. Okay so we will see you tomorrow. I am asking you friends, we are starting a week, let us have a good week. That is as much as possible we will be able to go through all these excerpts of faith above reason. Read them as many times as you can in the beginning, the end, the beginning, no matter how, alone, together, explain them to each other. Just do not forget that we work together so good luck all the best.

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